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Create an instance of the specified `TYPE` using default arguments. Return the address of the newly‐created object on success, and 0 otherwise. The instance must be destroyed using the `deleteObject` method of this object factory.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlma_factory.h>`

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virtual
TYPE*
createObject() = 0;
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